Clothes hanger



June 2, 1953 PRICE I 2,640,632

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Patented June 2, 1953 UNITED STAT .S FATE!" QFFICE CLOTHES HANGER Raymond F. Price, Tucson, Ariz.

2 Claims. 1

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in clothes hangers and is a divisional application of my co-pending application Serial No. 11,400, filed February 27, 1948, and issued September 11, 1951, as U. S. Patent No. 2,567,348.

The primary object of the present invention is to provide a garment hanger including a pair of coaxial arms that are frictionally adjustable toward and away from each other.

Another important object of the present invention is to provide a conventional wire coat hanger having a horizontal rail with a tubular guide disposed thereabout and a pair of extensible arms frictionally engaging the rail and the inner periphery of the guide to permit adjustment of the arms longitudinally of each other.

A further object of the present invention is to provide a clothes hanger of the aforementioned character that is extremely simple and practical in construction, neat and attractive in appearance, inexpensive to manufacture, and otherwise well adapted for the purposes for which the same is intended.

Other objects and advantages reside in the details of construction and operation as more fully hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, wherein like numerals refer to like parts throughout, and in which:

Figure 1 is a front elevational View of the present invention;

Figure 2 is an enlarged fragmentary view of Figure 1 and with parts broken away;

Figure 3 is an enlarged detail vertical sectional view taken substantially on the plane of section line 3 -3 of Figure 1;

Figure 4 is a perspective view of the guide used in the present invention; and,

Figure 5 is a perspective view of one of the arms used in the present invention.

Referring now to the drawings in detail, wherein for the purpose of illustration, there is disclosed a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the numeral I0 represents a conventional, well known wire coat hanger including a lower horizontal rail [2 whose ends are bent upwardly to provide a pair of arcuate, converging support arms I4 and Hi, the ends of which are twisted together. The free end of the arm I4 is extended upwardly and is bent into a hook member 18.

Loosely embracing the lower rail I2, is a tubular guide 20 having a substantially elliptical opening or bore 22 the upper wall of which bears against the upper and side peripheries of the rail I2 and the lower wall of which frictionally and slidably engages a pair of coaxial garment supporting arms 2% and 26 that are preferably circular in cross-section. The outer ends of the arms 2 and 25 are provided with loops 28 that form finger engaging means and stop means respectively, for extending the arms relative to each other and which limit the inward movement of the said arms into the guide.

In practical use of the invention, any weight or pressure, namely the downward pull of garments supported on the arms, will cause the arms to frictionally engage the rail I2 to prevent the same from slipping during use. Also, the arms frictionally engage the lower inner periphery of the guide and the lower periphery of the rail [2 to frictionally retain the arms extended and wedged against the walls they contact.

Having described the claimed as new is:

1. A clothes hanger comprising a wire frame including a horizontal rail, a tubular guide loosely surrounding said rail, and a pair of arms having inner end portions of uniform diameter invention, what is 'slidably received in said guide under said rail and frictionally engaging the rail and the inner periphery of the guide to retain the arms extended from the guide.

2. A clothes hanger comprising a wire frame including a lower horizontal rail, a tubular guide surrounding the lower rail, said guide being substantially elliptical in cross-section, said rail occupying substantially one-half the interior of said guide, and a pair of solid rod-like arms slidably received in opposite ends of said guide underlying the rail and frictionally engaging the lower surface of the rail and the inner periphery of the guide.

RAYMOND F. PRICE.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 2,446,312 Usina Aug. 3, 1948 2,562,368 Robison et a1 July 31, 1951 2,567,348 Price Sept. 11, 1951 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 494,210 Great Britain Oct. 21, 1938 

